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Strategic partnerships for MOOC development (MID2017)

3.
MOOC offering in Europe
• European institutions are more involved in MOOCs than the US
• Is Eastern Europe going to be involved significantly as well?
• In Czech Republic 66% is planning a MOOC
• In Poland 24%
• Large US and EU differences:
• ECTS framework
• Difference between higher educational systems.
Continental European related to state funding - most institutions
have equal resources
Market-based US model has mixed private-public funding and
provision with large differences between HEIs.
• What are the main motives at institutional level to be involved (or
not) in MOOCs?
Darco Jansen

4.
MOOCs are for free…
• MOOCS are for free for the participants….
• … but someone has to pay for the development and
operational costs
• the costs for MOOC production and delivery range from nearly
US$40,000 to over 325,000.
• In addition, approximately US$10,000–50,000 is needed to cover
operational costs every time the course is offered.
• it costs up to US$35,000 per course to record and publish
lectures as part of an xMOOC.

5.
How MOOCs may benefit society
• Widening participation in higher education
• Equality in and democratisation of education
• The ROI of tertiary education for society
• The potential to reduce education costs
MOOCs are just another milestone in the process of
transforming HE into a more open, accessible, flexible,
affordable, transparent and accountable entity.

6.
Freemium business models and open
• Open source and free software
• Open access journals
• Open textbooks
• OER
The basic product is free for end-users, and an open licence
allows modifications of the original source

7.
Freemium at MOOC level
Formal certificates
Individual coaching/tutoring during the MOOC
Tailored courses for employees as part of company
training (e.g., a SPOC based on a MOOC)
Tailored follow-up resources based on participants’ data
in the MOOC
Remedial courses
Training to qualify for access to universities

8.
Freemium at Institutional level
MOOCs
… can offer a good marketing model
… can attract better and/or more on-campus students
… can attract new kinds of students
… provide innovation in educational provision
… result in scalable educational services
… can improve the quality of on-campus education
… can reduce the costs of regular course provision
… can be a research area
… can be mass environments for exploring research
questions